As Malala Yousafzai (and Kailash Satyarthi) win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, a look at the making and breaking of Malala Yousafzai. Before she became a world-renowned advocate for girls’ education, before she became a victim of the Taliban’s brutality, before she was nominated for international accolades, Malala Yousafzai was this: a scared little girl. The title of Malala’s first entry in a diary she kept for the BBC in 2009 was ‘I am afraid’. Over the course of ten weeks, the 11-year-old offered a glimpse into her life in Taliban-occupied Swat. Her accounts provide a picture of the very real threats she and her schoolmates faced for pursuing their studies, but do so with childlike simplicity.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:16:40 +0000
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